today's news in the week's top stories that fury rages on in northern ireland with close to thirty policemen injured in heavy loyalist clashes sparked by belfast council's decision to remove the union flag from city hall for most of the year. the world hacktivist a community mourns the death of a prominent defender of internet freedom with his relatives blaming the u.s. criminal justice system for suicide. france games ground in its campaign to push out is the most extremists from northern mali while additional international support is confirmed from the united states britain and other european countries. and yes we can't barack obama's promise to close the notorious guantanamo bay

prison continues to go on kept within the detention facility hitting its eleventh anniversary with over one hundred sixty captives still being held without trial or charge. and recapping the week's top stories this is r.t. with the weekly i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us fears of clashes in belfast between loyalists and nationalists on saturday once again ended in street battles leaving twenty nine policemen injured the outrage was sparked six weeks ago by belfast council's decision to reduce the number of days the union flag flies over the city hall the latest violence and broke out after about a thousand unionists marching on city hall were attacked by locals in a predominantly catholic area police fired. water cannons and plastic bullets to

disperse the crowd for has been at the scene. clashes breaking out once again on the streets of belfast you can see the police they're just trying to push back the crowds a. huge number of police rather sadly sites like this becoming all too common other to think going to have helped by the fact that many feel inflammatory political language has helped to whip up the tensions here on the straight. recreational rioting that well some people are calling it. you can see the fate. of rocks the police responding with. the sun protests have been tried but the scale and intensity of this has been. much much more than just that he students the director of the east belfast mission creep is working with young protesters to try to calm the tensions some kids are doing it for fun or doing it

for more sinister motives in terms of control terms of par in terms of ego some are doing it because it's sexier than a playstation you know young girls are doing it because girls even with young children we've seen on the streets. of fully realized what their actions can result . they're just right there and somewhere stopping the law and yet there's nothing about it what are the protesters here asking for just one our flag back up on water and pays to get off their backs aids peter robinson least you're not silly not them he was the one that had to start. the day forty minutes for us to come out on the street to protest against the announce a nice back save maybe take all the flak. you know but when he wanted also to on the streets for his own actions. we can make for. the paper says

that any kind of call for mind when it comes to this. when the flag of the flag not said. we know we're not going to get. action because it's the majority. any unionist warns now to try to reengage politically that we're told much more will need to be done. quick fixes. i don't think there's any silver bullet i think there's so many different things need to happen economic. investment political investment community investment by and by all the stakeholders in these communities to try to resolve the wide draft of issues that are a blight here. is what. damage has already been. this is a new generation putting on to the streets of belfast it's

a far cry. the night it's complex that doesn't make it any less. so. the relatives of internet activist and programmer have a said his death was a product of the failed u.s. justice system the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide facing criminal hacking charges of decades in prison for allegedly stealing and publishing scientific documents online my colleague spoke to a representative of the pirate party from the berlin parliament fabio reinhardt who says the potential punishment for schwartz was far too harsh but u.s. attorney's office pursued a spread of charges possibly leading to over thirty years in prison and a million dollar fine this alternately for downloading and redistributing mit academic papers do you think the punishment is justified. no i definitely don't

think this plan is the same as mine was justified it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fines for just are not into music from the internet or into what was putting flyers on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. where the fire came from and said they wanted to put the fire on the internet anyway and aaron swartz just did a perfectly good job doing it and he actually took a lot of effort from them which would have been there for i think the system that rocked this case whenever it comes to internet freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then other senators other people in the house of representatives in the united states on the same side there is no differences. there they are five same side as hollywood does they are actually fighting for hollywood and making the last four of them it's sometimes it's ridiculous what they what they are thinking what would be a good law they should always think what they are but the laws actually have an

effect on society scaring a very heavy legacy that will be difficult to fill a footstep but there are a lot of people that fight for the same goals that were tried to go into what's what he was fighting for and i think there's a political movement that is fighting for a free internet it's the strongest now and with get stronger and there's no risk that this very heavy loss for the internet community will bring a stop to the political movement. and at least eleven civilians and over one hundred militants have been killed since the french intervention in mali began on friday government troops with of the help of the french military haven't gained control of the key city of quanah which had been captured by islamist rebels earlier this week jets and helicopters have now begun an aerial bombardment on the rebel held town meanwhile the campaign is gaining support from the west as the united states britain and other european countries are offering logistics support

political writer and journalist barry lando believes france will have to go shade with the rebels. if the country was really ready to come apart has their friends seem to feel that perhaps it was i think the problem is that it's totally open ended the french have given no they probably don't know exactly what they're at your tips are what is there in how long is this going to go on you're talking about a country just north of our morality which is twice the size of france you track down these rebels these different groups who know he's there is how do you deal with them with a few hundred troops are away it's a very contentious huge involvement a very long task in the end what they're going to want to do is i mean to negotiate with these people that's the only way i think it's going to come to an end. if you fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him and who had

a lot of be arms took off and came south and some of them originally from northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time to having their own homeland in northern mali these were tyrus they were better than joined by radical more radical islamic groups and occur. that now being tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things but i don't think anyone really knows what's going on there. earlier a failed mission to rescue a hostage in southern somalia left two french soldiers the hostage and seventeen militants dead the raid in the area began hours after french troops intervened in mali to help government troops battle rebels there currently nine french and nationals are being held hostage across northern africa a fresh round of diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the crisis in syria has been held this week in moscow the u.n.

and arab league peace envoy to syria reiterated that there can be no military solution to the conflict and moscow has urged the opposition to propose its own peace plan stressing that assad's removal cannot be a precondition for peace talks. we are united in our view that the crisis is becoming increasingly menacing not only for syria for the region as a whole in this situation the only ones that benefit other radicals and extremists connected deter groups like al qaida we're convinced the solution lies in following the geneva agreements without any preconditions because preconditions will make it impossible to start a dialogue it's necessary to force all sides including the opposition that's now refusing the talks to come to the negotiating table. meanwhile on the ground rebels have invaded the largest military air base in the north while syrian military warplanes have bombed the damascus suburbs forcing the opposition out of the

strategic western experts stated that the syrian government might be storing up to fifty tons of raw uranium enough to build five nuclear bombs fears are mounting that the arsenal could fall into the wrong hands however political analyst says that the west isn't drawing a full picture of the conflict. there's a lot of noise about it there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.a. said that there were traces of fuel rain of depleted uranium but they did not confirm that there was any quantity or at least you know this huge quantity that is being publicized i mean they're saying fifty tons of uranium this is this is i don't know where they come up with a number well i did some research and it appears that they came up with the number because they they feel they are coming up with the story that this site that was

there that was bombed in two thousand and seven would actually require fifty tons that doesn't mean that the syrians actually have fifty tons and that doesn't mean that the site is actually for a nuclear program the syrian central government was able to control more than. six months there's an advance of the syrian army and the syrian official police and they are controlling most of the country there are only some areas in the countryside that rebel fighters and some areas in the countryside where the syrian army withdrew from these areas because they thought that these areas were not important strategically but overall this is central government under the leadership of president assad controls most of the syrian territory obviously it's difficult because there are many fighters infiltrating from outside syria there are many a lot of money being infiltrated into syria to these rebel groups by a neighboring country especially by by turkey by qatar by other european and by the united states there is a sponsorship of these terror groups. later in the hour

a dark anniversary for the notorious guantanamo bay prison. after the break we have eyewitness accounts of what's been happening behind the prison walls. continues to prolong closing the facility this story and much more in just a few minutes. download the official. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. joining me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the terrorists you're going to meet some real criminal

insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . again recapping the week's top stories this is r t live from moscow i'm glad to have you with us now america's most infamous prison camp has marked its eleventh anniversary this week with over one hundred sixty captives still being held there

without charge or trial barack obama has been promising to close the facility since his two thousand and eight presidential campaign but has since failed to stand up to his word was more calls to stop indefinite detention have largely died down in the u.s. where even torture is gaining acceptability as can comments president obama's call to look forward not backward has resulted in attempts to sweep the past under the rug including some of his own promises to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo and to george w. bush he later became a vocal critic of the practices there and strongly supported president obama's pledge to shut down the prison he says the perception of guantanamo in the u.s. has come a long way since two thousand and eight when he was a burning and highly controversial issue with a nation demanding action he gets a free pass on i mean the public largely could care less the mainstream media

here in the us. you know is more interested in car dash and then they are and what happens at guantanamo. so who's going to challenge it if we're looking for the biggest threat to america right now she's right there her name is kim carr daschle and. america has moved on and so has its perception of torture polls by the american red cross show the majority of americans now find torture acceptable sixty percent of young people agree whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the us hollywood has arguably. public opinion. or.

washington insiders including the senate intelligence committee point out how torture has proved to be ineffective but in america it's often fiction not facts that make history this is more important than reality this is the movies where americans learn their history and today the history in the making is the drone strikes this amounts to the administration executing people without due process often in absolute secrecy in foreign lands with a remote control but will obama's drones generate as much of a backlash as tunnel did for george w. bush that we've now got have a generation that only knows the post nine eleven hero. where things like guantanamo.

bursey evolved here is what may transpire with regards to drones the urgency of the issue will subside in the west because there will be no american troops dying there will be no public movement to oppose the program there may even be a movie or two becoming a logical capabilities of drones and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal american move on in washington i'm going to check. and earlier this week my colleague kevin owen spoke with murat kurnaz a former prisoner at guantanamo who was serving a sentence for what turned out to be groundless accusations he was released after the u.s. military failed to get him to confess to crimes he never convicted but he says some others were not so lucky if you are not a terrorist they would like to try to make you

a. example imo so if i should agree that i am be a member of. that i did fight with are you going to go against american soldiers between the war. and i should say i should sign papers that i am be a member of but where the charge is the first. there was no reason for just the. pakistani people they sold me for bounty of through some dollar to americans and they said this man he's a terrorist and very soon few months later they found out that i'm innocent and they want me. that i'm going to sign papers they forced me to sign papers that i should agree that i'm be a member of al qaeda because because they didn't have anything against me in their hands and you're saying force you have they force you say what were they doing to shoot to do that. they used torture techniques like waterboarding and electroshocks they sought after this i'm going to sign and agree that i'm being

a member of al qaeda and every time i refused to sign they tried another kind of torture they saw i walked one time can you tell us the worst thing one of the better word that you saw going on there. i saw. i had naples they used to be just nine or if you're sort childs and. i think it was the worst i saw over there. there was not treating better than us i didn't saw that they getting tortured but. to see children in the same camp it was bad enough for me and also i saw people they got killed on the torture the bigger portion of the. kill so. i mean i have seen many things during this five years many thinks this is just

a couple of those how do you feel after what you've been through in guantanamo through no fault of your own how does it make you feel as a human being. of course nobody can be happy after after all this happened. trying to. humanize organizations. against torture around the world not just going to. the world more than twenty one secret prisons people getting tortured one can almost just one of course and don't forget we have more stories for you on our website including a new collection of clothes designed to hide the wearer from drones and other means of detection scheduled to be unveiled in london soon to dot com to read how man could do big brother science. and seven letters belonging to scottish poet robert burns have been discovered by

a private researcher more than two hundred years since the beloved of bards death the full story on our website archie dot com. thousands have marched in moscow protesting against a law banning u.s. citizens from adopting russian children the march was organized by russian opposition activists our correspondent you've got a piece going off was at the rally. the protesters are demanding that the e.u. the authorities abolish the law passed me slowly which bans americans from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the magnitsky act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states for a leading human rights are the reason why russian lawmakers chose to balamory against from adopting russian children is due to the meaning cases of abuse and sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the

united states in fact the whole issue of the option has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of a proper legal reaction from american of gordie's including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and it's fair to say that they do have quite a large number of supporters in society in russia just recently about why the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin we signed the bill in the end asking him to change his mind to abolish the slaughter she explained it by saying that in many cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans many foreigners but americans in this case they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive

the proper medical attention here in russia and we both already heard from the president's press secretary to me that he was going to said that i was going to put in the will review this walk post even though it's not an official request but also right before the end of last year one of the russians newspapers managed to gather . around one hundred thousand signatures protesting the slaughter under the degree heat off of the president the problem also that's the review of this protest is also needed to point out back to do to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all those people who have already been able to find children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to finalize the process so these kids who are already sort of proves to be adopted the will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand

and fourteen. now and a somewhat more world news in brief are you now hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to paris and from all over france to protest against same sex marriage and adoption by gay couples three large rallies were held before the crowds marched through the streets to meet in the center of the capital the president's project of marriage for everyone has faced criticism ever since he was elected last man. over one hundred thousand opposition supporters took to the streets of taipei to protest against time ones pro china president demonstrators have also urged the country's prime minister to step down over the country's stagnating economy the opposition claims that the president's. china oriented policies are gradually eroding the island's independence from beijing. six men have been arrested and one declared wanted after allegedly committing a gang rape in the northern indian state of quantum job the twenty nine year old victim is believed to have been traveling alone on a bus when the driver took her to

a desolate location and called friends incident occurred just weeks after a gang rape in delhi which provoked massive protests rather country. really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pledged to continue building settlements in the west bank his announcement came just hours after police affected around two hundred palestinian activists and protesters from a site marked for construction one of those activists believes that israel is upcoming election wasn't the reason for the developments when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. there doing villages with missiles this is an armed resistance that by itself is violent but even within the process of action. many. many. routes will be single for no reason they did not even exist. or less.

likely six or seven in the pub thought. the did in the house a lot of them are. doctors for. problems that they suffered from the people it's a political. going ahead with their system and. going to next violent means that when they don't want anything with a legal or illegal. settlement expansion. there's a letters that are coming. to. get tough tough. tough position on. this particular case you know nine days ahead of the elections. coming up are two tours parts of the moscow kremlin hidden from public view that's after a short break right are not. wealthy

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